A Confession: I Am a Die-Hard Fan of Care Bear

I was at Singtel as they celebrate World Mental Health for the whole month of October.

I knew their mascot was Care Bears, and I secretly hoped to see one when I was there.

Guess what?

I saw 4 of them 🙌 Wishes do come true 😘

1️⃣ 𝗗𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁?

Each little bear is skilled in a significant way:

+ Each bear embodies a common human emotion
+ It enables people to relate to one another on that shared feeling.
+ The Bears represent a unique way to tell someone. “I know how you are feeling… I have felt that way before, too.”

2️⃣ 𝗔 𝗛𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴.

Being invited as the closing keynote speaker for Singtel’s World Mental Health Month is both a privilege and a responsibility for our RISEUP Movement.

This topic resonated with me dearly after I walked out from the three years of my life’s darkest hours.

Behind every significant movement is a group of Avengers who put their superpower together to make this possible.

3️⃣ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀

These people are super serious about Mental Health 💪

When you take a movement seriously, you rally people, activate resources and make a vision a reality.

A huge shout-out to Aileen Tan and her Avengers team, Elouise Chin, Alyssa Than-Stark (MBPsS), and many others who pulled all these together, which is a big feat 🚀

And yes!

A big kudos to Kuan Moon Yuen, Group CEO at Singtel, who backs up the team, shows up, walks the ground with the Care Bears, and connects with the people.

4️⃣ 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻 𝗔 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺

^ Mental health is a daily journey, perhaps for some, a daily battle.
^ Mental health is a storm that sometimes we can’t walk away.
^ Mental health is a storm that will teach us more than we know ourselves.

But through the storm, we learned how to be human again.

When you are in a storm, remember to;

# Take care of yourself by putting on the raincoat of support.
# Switching on the torchlight of hope (do reach out for help)
# Look into the storm and say, this is not the end of my story.

𝗜 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔 𝗕𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 🚀

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